Joyce Vance on Disturbing news from Georgia . . . and a little joy too.

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6. Read article II, clause 2 & 3 of the constitution

It says each state shall appoint electors, and that the president is the one who receives the majority of appointed electors.

That says to me that a state does not have the choice not to send electors, but in any case, the president is decided by the majority of duly appointed electors, not by the majority of the maximum possible electors.

The only contingent elections decided by the house in the past have been in cases where three or more candidates won electoral votes, but no candidate won a majority of the total EV’s.

Only two candidates will win EV’s this year, so the only possible scenario where a contingent election occurs would be in the case of a 269-269 tie.